Protective covering for water-closet seats.



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Y` UNITED STATES Patentedy October 18, 1904.

PATENT EETCE..

.PAULl MicHAELs, on sYRAcUsE, NEW YORK, AssieNoR or ONE-HALE To PETERl r. GEAssMANN, on sYEAcUsE, NEW YORK.'

PROTECTIVE COVERING FOR WATER-CLOSET SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,425, dated October 187 1904. Application led November 23, 1903. SerialNa. 182,218. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, PAUL MIcHAELs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Syracuse, in the county7 of Onondaga., in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Protective Coverings purpose of protecting the users of said seats from contagion and unpleasant eifects and sensations incident to direct contact with the seat, which protection is especially desired in hotels, office buildings, and other public places. i

The object of the invention is to provide the aforesaid protection by a single sheet of paper, preferably medicated, which shall completely cover the entire side edges and the front edge of the opening in the closet-seat; and to that end the invention consists in the improved construction of thev protective sheet, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of the protective covering embodying my invention; and Figs. 2 and 3 are transverse sections, respectively on line XX and. Y, in Fig. 1, illustrating the application of the protective covering to the closet-seat.

The said covering is composed of a sheet of paper, preferably of a species which is treated with a suitable disinfectant.

In manufacturing the said covering I form a blank A of said paper, which blank is provided with apertures a a/ across the center of the front and rear end portions of the blank and with elongated 'apertures Z) between corresponding ends of the said end apertures and with slits e' @extending outward from the ends of said elongated apertures, slits d d extending outward from the ends of the front aperture a and tongues z5 t between the said apertures and uniting the central portion e of the relates to means employed blank with the outer portions thereof, as illustrated in Fig. l.

The purpose of the central portion e and its aforesaid connection with the outer or main portion of the blank is to maintain the blank in proper shape for placing a series of such blanks in the form of a pad and for suspending them or otherwise disposing them in a convenient accessible position near the closet-seat. The tongues z5 t are slender and easily torn to allow the central portion e of the blank to be removed,` so as to produce the necessary aperture in the central portion of the sheet.

Each pair of slits c c extending from one of the apertures b forms between them a prolonged flap f, which is unbroken and extends the entire length of the main portion of one of the side edges of the opening O in the closet-seat, and thus eflectually protects the occupant of the seat from direct contact with the said portion of the seat. The rear aperture a permits the flapsff to be easily bent down without tearing the said flaps.

r `he slits CZ CZ with the adjacent slits c c form between them the flaps /L L, which are also easily bent downward without tearing them and serve to efectually shield the groins of the occupant. v

The slits d d form between them theI front flap vl, which protects the occupant from contact with the front edge of the opening O in the closet-seat.

In using the protective covering the central portion e of the sheet is disrupted, andthe sheet is placed upon the closet-seatB in a position to allow the fiaps ff, z, and a' to be bent down onto the edges of the opening O in the closet-seat, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. i

It will be observed that the integral prolonged flaps of the single sheet eiectually protect the user ofthe seat from direct contact with the edges of the opening O in the' seat B W hat I claim as my invention is- .'Ihe within-described blank consisting of a sheet of paper provided with apertures extending across the Center of the front and rear and uniting` the central portion ol the sheet D end portions of the sheet and with elongated with the outer portions thereof asset forth and apertures between corresponding ends of the shown.

end apertures, slits extending outward from PAUL MICHAELS. IYL. sf] 5 the ends of said elongated apertures, slits ex- Witnesses:

tending outward from the ends of the front J. J. LAASS,

apertures, and tongues between the apertures H ENRY f-ALTERS. 

